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Navigare Necesse Est! Hop on-board – Welcome to the blog Navigare necesse est, a blog about sailing and food & drink on-board. It is about cruising among all the islands of the Baltic sea and the archipelago of Stockholm especially. The archipelago around Stockholm has over 20.000 islands and islets and it is very dear to me and it is among these I have my home harbor. About me: I, Tyra the author of this blog live on a rather small island near the town Vaxholm. I have the Coastal Skipper Certificate and this Coastal Skipper Certificate is the second level of the official Swedish nautical training courses for recreational boat drivers. I love night navigation and has an in-depth knowledge of both day and night navigation, 'close to shore' as well as offshore. The Coastal Skipper Certificate is compulsory for the sailing of boats larger than 12 x 4 meters. Our boat is not that big at all but you never know one day perhaps I really need it. Although I'm sometimes the Captain of the boat and enjoys it I think I am more than willingly to spend a lot of time down in the galley. I just love to cook and bake on-board and I'm lucky I don’t get seasick below deck as many people unfortunately do, the only problem when cooking on-board is when it is leaning too much to one side and if we are going on the wrong tack. View my profile.

Saturday

We met this wonderful piece of art out in the archipelago, just outside our island Resarö. The brig Tre Kronor what a treat. The weather was calm as you can see and we were in no rush home, so I could take a few photos of this exquisite boat.

"This ship is modelled after Gladan, a Brig built in 1857 as a cargo navy ship. Gladan also made two journeys as a supply ship for A F Nordenskiöld and his expeditions to Spitsbergen and Greenland. Later she served as a sail training ship for the Navy. Her time ended in 1924, when she sunk in the harbour of the Navy town Karlskrona." read more

A Mexican inspired dish created by Nica. Start by adding a bed of tortilla chips on an oven plate. Click on a spicy meat sauce (preferably a little dry) and grated mature cheese. Put it in a hot oven and bake it until the cheese has melted and the chips are crisp.Decorate with tomato and chilli salsa, chopped fresh tomatoes, jalapeños and sour cream. Enjoy this lovely dish with a cool beer, lime and maybe a shot of tequila if you like a bit stronger stuff.

Let me introduce to you 'Banderas'and now we are not talking about Anthonio Banderas. No this is a “drink” inspired by the colours of the Mexican flag red, green and white with the golden yellow eagle. Banderas meaning flag in Spanish.

Make a shot of tequila, which represents the golden yellow colour, for the red colour a shot of the spicy/hot tomato or vegetable juice (V6, Mr. & Mrs. T) and for the green colour a shot of freshly squeezed lime. Salt on the side if someone likes to have that. Pour into pretty glasses and serve. Salud!

Wednesday

Out on the Baltic Sea one of those days when everything seemed to be in black and white, it was windy and raining cats and dogs, we even had some thunder and lightning. A day when there were hardly any boats out sailing we met this fantastic lady, the schooner Joanna Saturna.

This wonderful schooner was once called Marie but on her 100th birthday 2003 and she got back her original name Joanna Saturna back. Here is some tecnical information about Gaff Schooner Joanna Saturna

In addition to it’s over hundred-year-long history, Gaff schooner Joanna Saturna is one of the newest sailing vessels in the Baltic Sea. Summer 2005 was her very first year under sail since 1950’s. She was totally rebuilt during years 2000-2005 to the true moderns classic she is today.The restoring work was done under the supervision of the Finnish Maritime Museum and Joanna Saturna is registered as a historic class vessel by the Finnish National Board of Antiquities. Now you will be able to sail onboard a traditional sailing ship while enjoying the luxurious comforts of modern time. On board there is a fully equipped kitchen, air-conditioning, central heating, floor heating, water-closets (7 ) and, naturally, a sauna. Find out more about this here “ Sail with us”

Sea U soon/ TYRA

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Monday

This post, 'Back on solid ground again' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Navigare Necesse Est.

Land ahoy! Back on solid ground again…

After several weeks out on the sea, we are now back, back to work and ordinary day to day life. As I go through my photos I find that I have so much I want to share with you. I will show you a lot of lovely places and some ‘FOOD ON BOARD’ tips and ideas. I will have to start with a great day in June and that is the day of the Volvo Ocean Race, IPR at Kanholmsfjärden. Kanholmsfjärden is a large open bay in the middle section of the archipelago of Stockholm. 59.20.33N – 18.47.24E

21th of June, the big day at 'Kanan'. Thousands of spectators gathered to see the IPR, I wonder how many boats there were? I guess at least several hundreds and they came in all sizes and styles from very small wooden rustic sailing boats (see below) up to huge 'Stealth' boats. Most fascinating to watch them all.

Our skipper of the day Hubbe enjoying every moment of the In-Port Race, he has been following these guys on the net since the start in Alicante November 2008.

This is some of our dear friends in 'Svart Renault' Göran and Eva with their family and friends.

and here we have Nica with a guest Beckie from New Zeeland.

Tyra on the deck

After this very intense day and this happened to be the day after the day before The Midsummer Day I was exhausted consequently on our journey home to port I had a long nice nap on the deck.

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On the 25th they left for St Petersburg...

2009-06-25 The Volvo Open 70 boats have left Sandhamn and are battling it out on Leg 10 of the 400 nautical mile stretch to St Petersburg. Puma, Ericsson 4 and Telefonica Blue had a strong start.Full story

Tuesday

I usually have all my ABC Wednesday in the Greenhouse in Tyra's Garden but this week the letter i 'N' and I thought it was nice to hop onboard instead.

Navigare Necesse Est!

It is soon time for us to launch (is that the correct word for it?) the boat, it has been up on land since October and we are all eager to set sails again. The archipelago outside Stockholm has some twenty thousand islands to cruise around so there is always a nice spot to archor by.

If you don't have your own boat you can always hop onboard one of the old steamers (there are new ones too) and go out in the archipelago and visit some of the bigger islands. You can enjoy a nice meal at some of the resturants and perhaps even stay over at some nice hotel or youth hostal.

"Yaghan is a Hallberg-Rassy 62 built in 2003. She sails round the world via Antarctica 2006-2009. This blog comments on the circumnavigation as it proceeds. The comments are i English and Swedish. Yahgan departed from Stockholm, Sweden on June 1 2006 and is expected to return home again on July 28 2009. The total voyage is 44.000 nautical miles."